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Poetry Puzzlers

Go Figure!Syntax and Structure

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In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins,”GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,     Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day     To-morrow will be dying.”

What is rhyme (perfect rhyme)?

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What kind of rhyme is Donne utilizinghere?“O stay, three lives in one flea spare,Where we almost, yea, more than married are.”

What is slant or near?

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What kind of rhyme is utilized by Donne here?“Wherein could this flea guilty be,”

What is internal rhyme?

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Euphony or Cacophony?“And the smooth stream in the smoother numbers flows.”

What is euphony?

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The harsh sounds of the words “Ajax”and “strives” in “Sound and Sense” createthis kind of sound.

What is cacophony?

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“Had we but world enough, and time……An hundred years should go to praiseThine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;Two hundred to adore each breast,But thirty thousand to the rest”

What is hyperbole?

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When you refer to part of something to describe its whole, like the head of cattle, you are utilizing thisdevice.

What is synecdoche?

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“Yes; quaint and curious war is!You shoot a fellow downYou’d treat if met where any bar is,Or help to half-a-crown.”

What is understatement?

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Looking at the associations of the word “cloister’d” in Donne’s poemis looking at this device.

What is connotation or diction?

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In “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot writes about “shape withoutform, shade without color.”

What is a paradox?

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What is personification?

“The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,     The higher he's a-getting,The sooner will his race be run,     And nearer he's to setting.”

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What is personification?

In “To the Virgins,” Robert Herrick utilizes this figure of speechhere:“this same flower that smiles to-day     To-morrow will be dying.”

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What is a metaphor?

Donne is utilizing this figure of speech when he say, This flea is you and I.”

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What is a simile?

“'Tis true ; then learn how false fears be ;Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me,Will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee.”

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What is a metaphor?

Marvell utilizes this figure of speech to describe how time is running out: “Time's winged chariot hurrying near.”

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“Those that I fight I do not hateThose that I guard I do not love.”

What is parallelism?

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What is inversion?

“Whose woods these are I think I know.”

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What are trochee?

Identify the feet (metric) here: “Jack and Jill went up the hill.”

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Identify the foot AND meter: “The woods are lovely, dark and

deep”

What is iambic tetrameter?

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Some of the lines here do not come to a natural pauseat the end of the line, conveying this.“Had we but world enough, and time…We would sit down and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love's day;Thou by the Indian Ganges' sideShouldst rubies find; I by the tideOf Humber would complain.”

What is enjambment conveying how far apart they could stand to be if they had time; boundaries would not exist?

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1) A poem composed of fourteen lines is this.2) A poem like the one above with a sestet and anOctave.3) A poem like the one described in #1 with three quatrains and a concluding couplet.

What is 1) a sonnet, 2) Italian/Petrarchan, and 3) English/Shakespearean?